I want a Disney Movie to win the Stanley Cup

My pics for the third round will bring that percentage down a little, but at least I wasn’t shut out. 

I picked Buffalo to beat Ottawa mostly due to my loathing of a certain asshole named Joe Corvo (he beat up a woman at a Boston nightclub.  He punched her in the face and then kicked her when she was down.  She went to the hospital… he got a suspended sentence and a three game suspention from hockey.  Wow.  Sounds fair, doesn’t it?  Assault a woman… miss work for three days.  In case you were wondering, yes that was sarcasm.)  Anyway, the friggin Senators made the President’s trophy winning Sabers look like… well… Bruins.  Five games, no contest.  I’ve always hated the Buffalo Sabers but I picked them anyway.  Now I hate them even more.

Over in the Western Conference Finals things worked out a little better for ol’ Robert.  I picked Anaheim to beat Detroit.  It looked a little iffy there with Detroit at one point holding a 2-1 lead in the series and very often outplaying the Mallards, and King of all Defensemen Chris Pronger suspended for game four.  But the Duckies came through for me and beat the friggin’ Red Wings in six games. 

So now my winning percentage is 8 out of 14 for 57.1%. 

Which brings us to the Cup Finals. 

The last time Anaheim played in the finals they were still called Disney’s The Mighty Ducks… and I picked against them just for that very reason.  They played New Jersey that year and one of the cutesy made for television stories was the question of who Mrs. Niedermayer was going to cheer for.  Her son Scott was a Devils defenseman, and her son Rob was a center for the quacks.  This year Momma Niedermayer doesn’t have to split her loyalty.  Scott and Rob are both Duckies now, and more importantly they are both going to get to skate around with the Stanley Cup. 

Ottawa is on fire right now.  They’ve steam rolled three very good teams thus far, and are favored by many to win it all.  But I just look at Scott Niedermayer, Chris Pronger, and JS Giguere and I see the hockey equivalent of Fort Knox.  Add to that an offense that includes Teemu Selanne and what ESPN.com calls the Gosling line of Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry and Dustin Penner and I just have to go with the team formerly known as Mighty.  (sorry for the espn reference… Here’s the story where Scott Burnside shamelessly tries to get people to use the “goslings” when refering to the Getzlaf line… Stanley Cup Finals Breakdown)

Ottawa’s a great team despite the piece of shit they have on the blue line, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to see them win… but I’m putting all of my ducks in Anaheim’s row.  I chose the Ducks.

And I appologize for all the stupid references to their name… but you have to admit it’s the single lamest team nickname in all of pro sports.

Quack Quack, babie… Quack Quack.